34 ordspråk av John Cheever

John Cheever

John Cheever

John Cheever föddes den 27 maj 1912 och dog den 18 juni 1982 - US writer
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

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